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Prefixes sufixes rts
Health sciense vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Gastr/o | Stomach |
| Lapar/o | abdomen in general |
| -otomy | A cutting operation |
| Dys | bad, painful, dificult, abnormal |
| -pnea | respiration |
| Hemat/a | Blood |
| Ology | A subject of study |
| Cardi/o | heart |
| Ologist | doctor |
| Osteo | bone |
| Malacia | softening |
| Gastro | Stomach |
| scope | denoting an instrument for viewing, but extended to include other methods of examination. |
| pre- | before |
| Uni- | one |
| bi- | two |
| tri- | three |
| sub- | under |
| trans- | across |
| hypo- | low |
| negation- | negative |
| a- | with out |
| an- | not |
| post- | after |
| peri- | around |
| endo- | inside |
| dermat | skin |
| dent/o | teeth |
| pulmon/o | lungs |
| enter/o | intestines |
| hepat/o | liver |
| arthr/o | joints |
| rhin/o | nose |
| cyan/o | blue |
| melan/o | black |
| luek/o | white |
| erytthr/o | red |
| poli/o | grey |
| xanth/o | yellow |
| -itis | inflamed |
| -ectomy | surgically removed |
| -osis | abnormal condition |
| -algia | pain |
| -plasty | repair |
| -megaly | inlarged |
| brady- | slow |
| laryn/o | throat |
| Dys- | Bad, difficult |
| Thorac/o | chest |
| centesis | Puncture, especially when used as a suffix, as in paracentesis |
| Crani/o | The cranium |
| Renal | kidney |
| nephro- | kidney |
| myo- | muscle |
| hepat | liver |
| angio | Denotes blood or lymph vessels; a covering, an enclosure |
| -oma | A tumor or neoplasm |
| Arteri/o | artery |
| sten | A statistical term that uses the standard deviation to convert data into standardized scores that define ten steps along a normal distribution, with five steps on either side of the mean. |
| Neur/o | Nerve, nerve tissue, the nervous system |
| pathy | The sympathetic part of the autonomic nervous system |
| Hypo- | Prefix denoting deficient, below normal |
| -ic | Suffix indicating an acid |
| -cyte | cell |
| hyster- | uterus |
| -necrosis | Pathologic death of one or more cells, or of a portion of tissue or organ, resulting from irreversible damage. |
| -sclerosis | In neuropathy, induration of nervous and other structures by a hyperplasia of the interstitial fibrous or glial connective tissue. |
| -stenosis | A stricture of any canal or orifice. |
| -centesis | Puncture |
| -scopy | An action or activity involving the use of in instrument for viewing. |
| -graphy | A writing, a description. |
| -gram | A recording, usually by an instrument. |
| -rrhage | excessive fluid |
| -rrhapy | to fix |
| -rrhexis | rupture |
| -rrhea | destructive fluid |
| -dynia | pain |
| -ic | Suffix indicating an acid. |
| -osis | Suffix meaning a process, condition, or state, usually abnormal or diseased |
| -pathy | Disease. |
| -ostomy | Artificial or surgical opening |
| -otomy | A cutting operation |
| -ectomy | Removal of an anatomical structure |
| supra- | A position above the part indicated by the word to which it is joined; in this sense, the same as super-; opposite of infra-. |
| sub- | Beneath, less than the normal or typical, inferior |
| ab- | From, away from, off. |
| ad- | Prefix denoting increase, adherence, to, toward; near; very |
| inter- | Among, between |
| intra- | Inside, within; opposite of extra-. |
| cephal/o | (The head)/ towards the top |
| caud/o | tail bone |
| coron/o | towards the head |
| dist/o | far apart |
| anter/o | the front |
| midsagitt/o | |
| poster/o | the back |
| proxim/o | Nearest the trunk or the point of origin |
| trans- | across |
| medi/o | middle |
| later/o | Side view |
| ventr/o | front |
| dors/o | back |
| infer/o | lower |
| Arteri/o | artery |
| Arthr/o | joint |
| Ather/o | plack |
| ankyl/o | Bent, crooked, stiff, fused, fixed, closed. |
| arthr/o | A joint, an articulation; corresponds to L. articul-. |
| chondr/o | Cartilage or cartilaginous. |
| cost/o | The ribs |
| crani/o | The cranium. |
| -desis | to bind or tie together. |
| kyph/o | humpback |
| lord/o | curve;swayback |
| -lysis | breakdown;separation;destruction;loosening |
| myel/o | spinal cord;bone marrow |
| oss/e,oss/I,ost/o,oste/o | bones |
| -poietic | substance that forms |
| scoli/o | spine |
| spondyl/o | vertebra |
| -um | structure;tissue |
| ligament/o | ligament |
| synovi/o | membrane-> sheath around a tendon |
| burs/o | bursa(sac of fluid near joints) |
| my/o,myos/o | muscle |
| oblique | Slanted/sideways |
| -lysis | breakdown, seperation, setting free, destruction, loosening |
| kinesi/o | motion |
| Ton/o | tension, tone, stretching |
| sphincter | tight band |
| -trophy | development, nourishment |
| bi- | twice, double, two life |
| quadr/I | four |
| -ai | abnourmal conditon, dieaseas, plural of -im |
| -rrhexis | repture |
| teen/o, tend/o, tendin/o | tendon |
| electr/o | electricity, electrec |
| ankyl/o | crooked, bent, stiff |
| fasci/o | face, form |
| -plegia | paralysis, stroke |
| rectus | rectum, straight |
| transverse | Across |
| -cele | hernia, tumor, swelling |
| fibr/o | fiber |
| tri- | three |
| -desis | surgical fixation of the bone or joint, to bind, tie together |
| -ic | pertaining to |
| tax/o | coordination, order |
| Kinesiology | The science or the study of movement, and the active and passive structures involved |
| astrophy | A wasting of tissues, organs, or the entire body, as from death and reabsorption of cells, diminished cellular proliferation, decreased cellular volume, pressure, ischemia, malnutrition, lessened function, or hormonal changes. |
| ergonomics | A branch of ecology concerned with human factors in the design and operation of machines and the physical environment. |
| ligament | A muscle that connects muscles to bone. |
| tendon | A fibrous cord that connects bone to bone. |
| ROM | range of motion |
| ADL | aktivities of daily living |
| DTR | deep tendon reflex |
| Cardio/o | Heart |
| Phleb/o, ven/o | Vein |
| Aort/o | aorta |
| Coron/o | Heart |
| Leuk/o | White |
| Ven/o | Vain |
| Thrombo/o | Clot |
| Arteri/o | artery |
| Hem/o, Hemat | Blood |
| Arther/o | Plaque |
| -emia | Blood condition |
| Tachy- | Fast |
| Aneurysm/o | aneurysm |
| Valv/o | Valve |
| Capill/o | Capillares |
| Angi/o | blood vessel |
| Brady- | slow |
| erythr/o | red |
| thromb/o | Clot |
| Plasm/a, plasm/o- | Plasma |
| Hypertension | . High blood pressure; transitory or sustained elevation of systemic arterial blood pressure to a level likely to induce cardiovascular damage or other adverse consequences. |
| Srtoke | A harmful discharge of lightning, particularly one that affects a human being. |
| Arteriosclerosis | Hardening of the arteries; types generally recognized are: atherosclerosis, Mönckeberg arteriosclerosis, and arteriolosclerosis. |
| aneurysm | Circumscribed dilation of an artery or a cardiac chamber, in direct communication with the lumen, usually resulting from an acquired or congenital weakness of the wall of the artery or chamber. |
| Coronary artery disease (CAD) | |
| Heart Attack | |
| Congestive heart failure (CHF) | |
| Anemia, Hemophilia, and Leukemia | |
| -ema | Condition of |
| -ectasis | streching, dialation, enlargment |
| -osmia | smell, odor |
| -pnea | breathing |
| -ptysis | spitting |
| -sphyxia | breathing |
| -spasm | sudden involuntary contrac- |
| -ia | abnormal condition, disease |
| dys- | bad, difficult, painful |
| -osis | abnormal condition, disease |
| -tachy | fast |
| -brady | slow |
| Adenoid/o | adenoids |
| Alveoli/o | alveolus, air sac, small sac |
| Bronchi/o | bronchial tube, bronchus |
| Bronchiol/o | bronchiole, bronchiolus |
| capn/o | carbon dioxide, sooty or smooky appearance |
| coni/o | dust |
| cyan/o | blue |
| Epiglott/o | epiglottis |
| Laryng/o | larynx, throat |
| Lob/o | lobe, wel-defined part of an organ |
| Mediastin/o | mediastinum, middle |
| Nas/o | nose |
| Orth/o | straight, normal, correct |
| Ox/o | oxygen |
| Pector/o | chest |
| Pharyng/o | throat, pharynx |
| Phon/o | sound, voice |
| Phren/o | diaphragm, mind |
| Pleur/o | pleura, side of the body |
| Pneumon/o | lung, air |
| Plumon/o | lung |
| Rhin/o | nose |
| Sinus/o | sinus |
| Spir/o | to breathe |
| Tel/o | distant, far |
| Thorac/o | chest |
| -thorax | chest |
| Tonsil/o | throat |
| Trache/o | trachea, windpipe |
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